The POWER6 is not vulnerable to Meltdown. It _is_ vulnerable to Spectre. It's not clear whether IBM will offer firmware patches for it yet. source: tested my own system with the PoC Hurrah for my POWER5 then. Not necessarily: POWER4 (and then most likely also PowerPC 970 and derivatives) and POWER5...

Picked this up from Craigslist last weekend - it's an HP xw8400 workstation from 2007. Came with 16GB ECC memory (32GB max) and I've upgraded the processors to dual 3GHz Xeon x5365 for a total of 8 cores. It has onboard SATA, SAS, FireWire, IDE, and even has 9-pin serial, parallel, and floppy drive...

There's a :Fuel: available from Ebay Germany for 300.00 EUR "Buy it now" or "Make offer" from Mettingen (about 50km to Dutch border). No hinv output posted though and no information about its condition. The case looks very good AFAICS and there are photographs of the interior ava...

I have taken a pic of the first page test output that they gave me, it appears that they logged in to the console via the RSC. IMG_2952.JPG Yeah, looks like the boot messages of the RSC. The top part gives the credentials for login. I assume they used the RSC via its serial port, as (1) I don't thi...

If the machine is set up correctly, then how would I interface it with my Mac to give me a console over network? Have a look at the Remote System Control User's Guide . In general you should be able to use telnet - assuming this is available on OS X - to the configured IP address. If you don't know...

How do I set the mac up as a terminal, as I usually make use of a laptop with Windows XP on it? (hyper-terminal) I actually don't know. Quoting ClassicHasClass here, maybe he has an idea? If you have Homebrew installed you should be able to use screen with a similar command line than what I wrote a...

I received my V880z today. (everything inside the machine is absolutely brand new!) [...] I am unfortunately unable to run it up at the moment as I don't have the necessary: power cables, monitor cable or keyboard and mouse available to me at this time! As all of my other equipment is in Cape Town....

The following two items look like a "cheap" entrance into relatively modern SPARC64 hardware, although according to the mentioned frequency of 2.75 GHz I assume they have a SPARC64 VII installed instead of a SPARC64 VII+ . And as these processors came as dual- or quad-core versions with SM...

Oh wow, that one I didn't even know about! I guess that means every major commercial RISC platform of the mid 90s got a laptop except MIPS... Don't forget this one . :) Although it must have been constructed closer to the end of the 90ies: We built the laptop over a six month period using parts fro...

Hi rooprob, i had not yet seen the guide, thanks. I enabled the bootp tftp and rsh in /etc/inetd.conf and enabled inet in /etc/inetd.conf. When i tftp the file (unix.IP30) on the freebsd computer i can get it both via localhost and the ip of the computer. When i issue the following command on the O...